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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.

Harold Wilson

The labour party is like a stage-coach.
HAROLD WILSON

Coach Labour Party Stage
If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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Afford Buy Country Egg Five Get Person Tories Year
[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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Conservative Country Criticism Eighty Government Meed Ofcourse Produce Report Scientist Shall
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Choice Smoke Vinegar
Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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Actual Blade Flash Leader never Rigormortis Set Shoulder Suddenly Talk
I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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Going Government Labour
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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Common Crawling Fair Give Head Held High Market Negotiate Negotiation Wind
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
HAROLD WILSON

Reject Restrain September Wage
Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
HAROLD WILSON

Christian Designing Early Man Message Punish Rest Ruthlessness Society System Uncaring
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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Bring Cumulative Effect Economic End Finance Matter might Month Rebellion Sanction Week
There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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Five Nauseat Pay Prime Minister Society Something System Times Twenty Utterly
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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Ability Affect Common Duty Government House Majority Make Quite Small
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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Ambition Average Country Every Government Income Labour Present Worker
The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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Crusade Labour More Nothing Party
Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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Above Communication Factor History Mention Over Sense Sleep Vigilance
A week is a long time in politics.
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Long Politics Time Weak

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